Sentence examples for eliminated candidate from inspiring English sources

Mohammed Abu Hilely, a prominent eliminated candidate from the Arab tribe, told me that Rafat and Mahmoud — his fellow-tribesmen — had paid off voters.

For voters, that means if the eliminated candidate was your first choice, then your second-choice vote will be applied in the next round of counting.

If not, the candidate with the fewest votes in that round is eliminated and their second preferences (or third preferences if the second choice was for an already eliminated candidate) are reallocated.

Yameen won a controversial runoff with the help of Qasim Ibrahim, a business tycoon and eliminated candidate in the first-round vote who has since become a Nasheed ally.

Candidates chosen second by voters who had marked the eliminated candidate as their first preference would have those second-preference votes added to their totals until a candidate reached the 50 percent mark.

If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the one with the least number of first-place votes is dropped, and the second choices of those who had picked that eliminated candidate are redistributed.

One of the eliminated candidates was Mahmoud Abu Mohasseb, a lawyer whom I had known for more than two years.

The weakest candidates are eliminated first; several rounds of counting are then required to assign the votes of the eliminated candidates to those still in the running.

Yet this won't be enough if they attract few second preferences from eliminated candidates, something none of the polls have investigated.

But some question how much divine will the child can introduce into the process after the elite electors have already eliminated candidates with unconventional views.

To win next month, he will have to attract most of the votes cast for Ms. Le Pen and the seven other eliminated candidates.